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The incredible shrinking Xbox: Five studios, 3,200 employees let go

Microsoft has announced a major restructuring of its Xbox division, resulting in 3,200 layoffs and the divestment of five acquired studios. New CEO Asha Sharma described this as a necessary 'reset' to...

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A global workspace in language models

Anthropic introduces the Global Workspace architecture, a novel mechanism designed to enhance reasoning capabilities in large language models by integrating information across different processing sta...

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Road to Elm 1.0

The Elm team announces significant performance improvements in build times, marking a major step toward the stable Elm 1.0 release. This update addresses long-standing developer complaints about slow ...

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OpenWrt One – Open Hardware Router

OpenWrt One is an officially supported open-source hardware router designed to run the OpenWrt operating system out of the box. It aims to provide a standardized, community-vetted platform for network...

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PREEMPT_NONE Is Dead; Your Postgres Probably Doesn’t Care

An AWS benchmark revealed a significant PostgreSQL throughput regression on Linux 7.0, primarily caused by the removal of the PREEMPT_NONE kernel scheduler mode. The author argues this is largely a co...

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Hacking the Kyocera KY-42C

The author successfully unlocks the bootloader of the Kyocera KY-42C, a Japanese feature phone previously thought to be unrootable after a firmware update. By leveraging known vulnerabilities in Media...

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Reddit is using LLMs to solve a problem LLMs largely created

Reddit has implemented Large Language Models to combat the surge in AI-generated spam, effectively fighting 'fire with fire' by detecting subtle coordinated patterns that older systems missed. This st...

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FCC to end Biden-era rule that forces ISPs to list all their fees

The FCC is voting to eliminate a Biden-era rule requiring Internet Service Providers to itemize 'passthrough' fees on broadband price labels, replacing it with an aggregate 'up to' amount. This move, ...

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There were not one, but two asteroid encounters this weekend

This weekend featured two significant asteroid encounters: Japan's Hayabusa2 successfully flew by the peanut-shaped asteroid Torifune, while China's Tianwen-2 arrived at its target for a future sample...

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The Czinger 21C might be the wildest car we drive all year

The Czinger 21C is a hybrid hypercar featuring a bespoke 2.88L twin-turbo V8 revving to 11,000 rpm and a three-motor electric system, producing 1,250 hp. Priced at $2.35 million, it rivals the Koenigs...

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Nintendo will stop selling the original Switch in Europe next year

Nintendo has confirmed that it will cease sales of all original Switch family consoles, including the Switch Lite and OLED Model, across Europe starting in mid-February 2027. This decision marks the e...

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GLM 5.2 and the coming AI margin collapse

The article argues that the AI industry's economic model relies heavily on high-margin inference costs to amortize fixed training expenses, challenging the notion that training costs drive market valu...

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sneakerweb

Sneakerweb introduces a peer-to-peer web publishing protocol that operates without traditional infrastructure like DNS or hosting services, relying instead on physical media for data transfer. Users c...

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The (Petty) Reason We Didn't End Up Using jj

Gradle engineers attempted to adopt Jujutsu (jj) as a Git-compatible version control system but encountered a blocker related to Windows line ending handling in the Gradle Wrapper's batch files. The i...

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Web Security docs on MDN

The Sovereign Tech Agency has funded significant updates to MDN Web Security documentation, focusing on attacks, defenses, threat modeling, and authentication. This initiative aims to provide develope...

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Postgres Is Enough

The article advocates for using PostgreSQL as a unified database solution to replace specialized systems like Redis, Elasticsearch, and MongoDB, arguing that this reduces operational complexity and co...

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Seventy Years of Parsing: Theoretical and Practical Consequences

This paper reviews the theoretical and practical evolution of parsing over the last seventy years, highlighting the shift from formal grammatical theories to modern neural approaches. It discusses how...

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Orasort - Common prefix skipping, adaptive sort

The author reveals that the patent for 'Orasort,' an adaptive sorting algorithm previously used in Oracle 10gR2, has expired. This algorithm improves performance by skipping common key prefixes and dy...

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Bentley teases its first EV, the Torcal

Bentley has officially teased its first all-electric vehicle, named the Torcal, continuing its tradition of naming models after natural landmarks. The name references El Torcal de Antequera in Spain a...

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sqlite-utils 4.0rc3

Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0rc3, introducing support for introspecting and creating compound foreign keys, which necessitates a subtle breaking change to the table.foreign_keys API. The up...

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Real-time map of Great Britain's rail network

A real-time interactive map visualizing Great Britain's rail network is showcased, likely aggregating live train position data into a geographic interface. The project demonstrates effective use of op...

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fin: a Jellyfin & Subsonic client for the terminal

Fin is a new terminal-based media player client written in Rust that supports Jellyfin and Subsonic protocols. It leverages mpv for playback and integrates with Chromecast and UPnP MediaRenderers for ...

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Every major tech layoff in 2026 that has name-checked AI

The article provides a chronological list of major tech company layoffs in 2026 where artificial intelligence was cited as a contributing factor. It highlights the ongoing trend of workforce reduction...

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F1 in Britain: Automated software to blame for crushing expectations

The British Grand Prix concluded with the fastest car failing to win due to ongoing reliability issues, while the expected late-race restart was cancelled due to an automated software error displaying...

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I spy

The article uses a plot point from the Netflix series 'A Man on the Inside' to highlight the growing cultural concerns regarding privacy and surveillance associated with AI-powered smart glasses. It a...

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Can Partiful keep the party going?

Partiful, an event planning app, is gaining traction among college students through ambassador programs that subsidize parties, highlighting a shift away from Facebook Events. However, recent reports ...